So I'm cleaning the car yesterday, clay bar, hand wash, filled in some chips with touch up paint, etc... Before I got around to waxing (and it's overcast and looks like rain today) I started on the interior, and ended up fixated on the ashtray that hasn't closed since I got the car.
I didn't think to take pictures, but in my case there was a plastic roller broken off the arm on the back of the lid carriage, the latch was broken (the dumb twat who had it before me got coins stuck behind it and tried to force it), and it looked like a couple other small tabs/etc.. had broken off. I got the roller back on, reinforced by some thin carbon fiber sheet, before I noticed the latch was missing.
The ashtray lid has two flat coil shaped springs at the hinge points. The inner end has a 90deg 'L' bend that fits into a groove on the inner hinge post, while the outer has a 180deg 'U' bend that hooks onto one of three small nubs (I assume so you can adjust tension) on the lid.
My fix was to flip the springs over so they push the lid closed instead of open. It's not the elegant or proper fix, but it's a hell of a lot less annoying than it was.
I think I'll take the $8.52 in change I found behind the console down to the junkyard and see if that will buy a working ashtray module.
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